“Increase in number of data centers is expected to boost the demand for Solid state drives”

The solid state drives market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.5% between 2015 and 2020. The factors contributing to the growth of the solid state drives market include proliferation of cloud computing, advantages of SSDs over HDDs, increase in the number of data centers, and rising big data applications.

“The solid state drives market for data centers is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period“The SSDs market for data centers is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. Rise in big data, cloud computing, and internet of things (IoT) is expected to increase the adoption of solid state drives in data centers for high performance storage.

“APAC is the fastest-growing market for solid state drives” The SSDs market in APAC is expected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2016 and 2022. This growth can be attributed to the development in the consumer electronics market and increasing adoption of SSDs in electronic devices. In addition, China’s semiconductor giants such as Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and the Tsinghua Uni Group, and Taiwanese companies such as Mediatek, Inc. focus on the development of SSD controllers, which further increases the demand for SSDs in this region.

Break-up of profile of primary participants for the report as given below:

- This report includes the market statistics pertaining to capacity, interface, end user, application, and region.- The Porter’s five forces framework has been utilized along with the value chain analysis to provide an in-depth insight into the solid state drives market.- Major drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges for the solid state drives market have been detailed in this report.- Illustrative segmentation, analysis, and forecast for markets based on capacity, interface, end user, application, and region have been conducted to give an overall view of the solid state drives market.- A detailed competitive landscape includes key players, in-depth analysis, and revenues of key players.

FIGURE 1 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 17FIGURE 2 BOTTOM-UP APPROACH 21FIGURE 3 TOP-DOWN APPROACH 22FIGURE 4 DATA TRIANGULATION 23FIGURE 5 ASSUMPTIONS FOR THE RESEARCH STUDY 24FIGURE 6 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET SEGMENTATION 25FIGURE 7 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET, BY CAPACITY, 2015 26FIGURE 8 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET, BY INTERFACE, 2016 VS. 2022 26FIGURE 9 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET, BY END USER, 2016 AND 2022 27FIGURE 10 SSD MARKET FOR DATA CENTERS EXPECTED TO HAVE THE LARGEST SHARE DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 28FIGURE 11 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET, BY REGION, 2016 28FIGURE 12 ATTRACTIVE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET 30FIGURE 13 SSDS WITH LESS THAN 250 GB CAPACITY TO HOLD THE LARGEST SHARE OF THE OVERALL SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 30FIGURE 14 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET FOR SAS INTERFACE EXPECTED TO HOLD THE LARGEST SHARE IN 2016 31FIGURE 15 THE SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET IN THE U.S. EXPECTED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE LARGEST SHARE IN 2016 32FIGURE 16 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET FOR DATA CENTERS EXPECTED TO GROW AT THE HIGHEST RATE BETWEEN 2016 AND 2022 33FIGURE 17 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET SEGMENTATION, BY GEOGRAPHY 37FIGURE 18 DROC: SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET, 2015 38FIGURE 19 MAJOR VALUE ADDITION DONE DURING THE MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLING PHASES 44FIGURE 20 PORTER'S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS (2015) 45FIGURE 21 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET: PORTER'S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 46FIGURE 22 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET: INDUSTRY RIVALRY 46FIGURE 23 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET: THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES 47FIGURE 24 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET: BARGAINING POWER OF BUYERS 48FIGURE 25 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET: BARGAINING POWER OF SUPPLIERS 49FIGURE 26 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET: THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS 50FIGURE 27 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET SEGMENTATION, BY CAPACITY 52FIGURE 28 CLIENT END-USER SEGMENT EXPECTED TO HOLD THE LARGEST SHARE OF THE MARKET FOR SSDS WITH A CAPACITY OF FIGURE 29 SSDS WITH PCIE INTERFACE EXPECTED TO WITNESS A RAPID GROWTH IN THE MARKET FOR SSDS WITH A CAPACITY OF 500 GB TO 2016 AND 2022 57

FIGURE 30 MARKET FOR SSDS WITH A CAPACITY OF >750 GB FOR THE ENTERPRISE END-USER SEGMENT EXPECTED TO GROW AT THE HIGHEST CAGR DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 60FIGURE 31 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET SEGMENTATION, BY INTERFACE 62FIGURE 32 CLIENT END-USER SEGMENT EXPECTED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE LARGEST SHARE OF THE MARKET FOR SSDS WITH SATA INTERFACE DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 64FIGURE 33 MARKET FOR SSDS WITH SAS INTERFACE FOR THE ENTERPRISE END-USER SEGMENT EXPECTED TO GROW AT THE HIGHEST CAGR DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 66FIGURE 34 SSDS WITH A CAPACITY OF 250 GB TO FIGURE 35 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET SEGMENTATION, BY END USER 72FIGURE 36 SSDS WITH PCIE INTERFACE MARKET EXPECTED TO GROW AT THE HIGHEST CAGR BETWEEN 2016 AND 2022 74FIGURE 37 SSDS WITH SATA INTERFACE MARKET EXPECTED TO LEAD THE OVERALL SSDS MARKET FOR THE CLIENT END-USER SEGMENT DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 76FIGURE 38 SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET SEGMENTATION, BY APPLICATION 79FIGURE 39 CLIENT END-USER SEGMENT EXPECTED TO LEAD THE SSDS MARKET FOR NOTEBOOKS/LAPTOPS BETWEEN 2016 AND 2022 81FIGURE 40 CLIENT END-USER SEGMENT EXPECTED TO DOMINATE THE SSDS MARKET FOR ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 83FIGURE 41 CHINA IS EXPECTED TO GROW AT THE HIGHEST CAGR IN THE SSD MARKET DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 86FIGURE 42 SNAPSHOT OF THE SSDS MARKET IN NORTH AMERICA (2013-2022): MAJORITY OF DEMAND FOR SSDS EXPECTED TO BE DRIVEN BY THE U.S. 89FIGURE 43 U.K. EXPECTED TO DOMINATE THE SSDS MARKET IN EUROPE DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 92FIGURE 44 SNAPSHOT OF THE SSDS MARKET IN APAC (2013-2022): CHINA, THE MOST LUCRATIVE MARKET FOR SSDS 96FIGURE 45 SOUTH AMERICA EXPECTED TO LEAD THE SSDS MARKET IN ROW DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD 99FIGURE 46 COMPANIES ADOPTED NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES AS A KEY GROWTH STRATEGY BETWEEN 2013 AND 2015 102FIGURE 47 BATTLE FOR MARKET SHARE: NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES WAS THE KEY STRATEGY 104FIGURE 48 GEOGRAPHIC REVENUE MIX OF TOP FIVE PLAYERS IN THE SOLID STATE DRIVES MARKET 108FIGURE 49 INTEL CORP.: COMPANY SNAPSHOT 109FIGURE 50 INTEL CORP.: SWOT ANALYSIS 111FIGURE 51 MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC.: COMPANY SNAPSHOT 112FIGURE 52 MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC.: SWOT ANALYSIS 114FIGURE 53 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.: COMPANY SNAPSHOT 115FIGURE 54 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.: SWOT ANALYSIS 117FIGURE 55 SANDISK CORP.: COMPANY SNAPSHOT 118FIGURE 56 SANDISK CORP.: SWOT ANALYSIS 120FIGURE 57 TOSHIBA CORP.: COMPANY SNAPSHOT 121FIGURE 58 TOSHIBA CORP.: SWOT ANALYSIS 123

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